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HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. HTML is
the main language in which documents on the Web are displayed. HTML uses codes
to specify how the content should appear to the user viewing it. These codes
are entered on the page that is going to be displayed, however, once the codes
have been properly written, they will not appear on the page. Instead, only the
desired content will be seen. These HTML codes consist of tags inside angle
brackets. An example would be “<title>”. Most HTML tags come in pairs. An
example would be <body> and </body>. The first tag is known as the
start or opening tag. The second tag is known as the end or closing tag. Notice
how the second one was a “/”, that means it is the end of a specific content.
Without the “/”, the content will not display properly. Then, within these tags
is where web designers can add the desired text, comments, tags, and other
types of text-based content that they may desire. Between the tags <html>
and </html> is where the web page is described, and between <body>
and </body> is the text visible on the page. There is however some tags
which are unpaired. They are called empty tags. An example of an empty tag
would be <img>. The name used in the tags, is the name of an HTML
element, and they may not always contain content. With empty tags, the slash
character, “/”, is not required or allowed. The default values are used if
attributes are not mentioned.

URL stands for Uniform resource locator, which is
what each web address is called. For example, http://www.google.com is the URL
for Google. The URL could also contain additional information about the
address, document, or folder where it is located. For example, http://www.google.com/news,
also contains the word “news” which describes a specific section, and it means
it will take you directly to the news section. On Wikipedia it states that, “A
URL is technically a type of uniform resource identifier (URI) but in many
technical documents and verbal discussions URL is often used as a synonym for
URI.” According to the Internet Engineering Task Force(IETF), the
Uniform Resource locator was created in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee and the URI
working group of the IETF. According to the World Wide Web Consortium, it was
an outcome of collaboration started at the IETF living documents “birds of a
Feather” session in 1992.

Here is an example of a typical URL:http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty_and_staff/Most are built up of three basic Components: protocol, server,
and path.“http://” is the first part of the URL. It defines the protocol
which we use to communicate with the server to be able to request there source.
“www.sjsu.edu/” is the next part of the URL. This is the name of the server in
which this resource is located.
The last part of the URL is “faculty_and_staff/.” This locates the actual
resource on the server. It takes you directly instead of going to the site and
searching for it.

A web browser is a software application primarily
used for accessing information on the World Wide Web. It retrieves, presents,
and transverses information resources found on the World Wide Web. A web
browser can also be used to access information on web servers that are in
private networks or files in file systems.
According to Mashable.com, some of the major and most popular browsers used
today are Internet Explorer, Safari, Google Chrome, Firefox, and Opera. Web
browsers use 2128 possible keys.

According to the World Wide
Web Consortium, Tim Berners-Lee invented the first web browser in 1990. At the
time is was called WorldWideWed, just like that with no spaces. I was later
renamed to Nexus. Then, according to bloomberg.com Marc Andreesen made the
browser even better by innovating the browser software with the release of
Mosaic, which was later known as Netscape. It became the world’s first popular
browser because it made the World Wide Web system easy to use to the average
person. Many consider Andressen’s Browser the spark of the internet boom in the
1990’s. In 1995, Microsoft came out with internet Explorer, and according to
search engine journal, internet explorer was being used by 95% of the people by
2002. The latest one came out in September on 2008, called Google Chrome. . According
to search engine journal Even since its release its been increasing in usage
every month, in august of 2011 it was being used by about 15% of users.

IP Address stands for Internet Protocol
address. It is a series of dotted decimals to identify a device in a computer
network that uses the internet protocol for communication. An IP address can
serve one of two main functions. It can host or network interface
identification and location addressing. According to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), The
designers of the Internet Protocol address defined an IP address as a 32-bit
number, which is known as Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), and it is still
used today. Due to the huge growth of the Internet, a new addressing system was
developed in 1995, called Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). IPv6 uses 128
bits for the address. The IP addresses are binary numbers, but they are
normally stored in text files and displayed in a readable notation. For the
IPv4 it would look something like this: 172.17.253.2. For the IPv6, it would
look something like th1s: 2001:db8:0:1234:0:567:8:1